Fashion: The Lilly

She has the face and figure of a Courbet
bather ("I look kinda round, not lean and lanky"), a home in
Palm Beach, three handsome children, and a minor legend of a
husbandHerbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 32, a grandson of
the publisher, who quit the easy, moneyed life to pick and pack
oranges. It would be enough for almost any girl. But to her own mild
astonishment, Lilly Pulitzer, 30, finds herself hailed as a fashion
designer.

Her fame rests on a single dress, unsurprisingly called "the
Lilly." Originally, she designed it as a uniform for herself to
wear while...